Why are so many of my fellow Utah fans pretending that this has turned out the
way we all falsely claimed it would turn out? The truth is very few tv sets can
watch our station and most of the tv sets in our own state have no access to it
as of today, launch day.

This is not what we were promised and this
is not what we claimed. It is a bit of an embarrassment and our deal does not
give us even half the coverage that BYU fans get for their team.

DNews has chosen to pull one of my earlier posts with quotes from Jon Wilner,
San Jose Mercury News posted yesterday. His conversation with Cox Cable is quite
informative about the Pac 12 Net's 'failure to launch' in Cox
territory and possibly explains why the satellites are not lining up behind the
Pac-12.

My guess is that I'm enjoying this too much and some Ute
fans are very 'sensitive' to this topic. My sincere apology if the
facts are too explicit for both mature and immature Dnews readers.

".....This is not what we were promised
and this is not what we claimed. It is a bit of an embarrassment and our deal
does not give us even half the coverage that BYU fans get for their team.

It may improve with time but for now it is very disappointing."

What good is coverage when nobody watches? Look at the ratings on ESPN
last year. The BYU loss at home to Utah was great though!I can understand
why BYU hopefuls would say that. Last year you were boasting and bragging about
how BYU TV was going to bring cougar football to the world! That tune changed
quickly.

"What good is coverage when nobody watches? Look at
the ratings on ESPN last year."

You obviously don't have a
clue what the ratings on ESPN were - ESPN executives have said MANY times that
they were thrilled to have BYU as a partner; so who should we believe, a jealous
Utah troll, or the people in the know at ESPN?

"Last year you
were boasting and bragging about how BYU TV was going to bring Cougar football
to the world!"

BYUtv DID bring BYU football and basketball to BYU
fans throughout the world, so why are you cluelessly trying to claim that it
didn't?

Bottom-line:

--BYUtv is available in 65
million homes on the basic programming tier--PAC Net is available in far
fewer homes and requires a higher programming tier or sports package in the
limited coverage areas outside the PAC 12 footprint

That's just
the way it is, and no amount of whining or denial from the kids on the hill is
going change that reality.

More shallow comments from a fellow BYU fan.Then why didn't you post
the ratings PAC man?And what else do you expect ESPN to say? It the same
thing they say about other contracts. Its their money on the line.

And in other news a major announcement in the college football world today.It appears that some BYU fans are right about other schools jumping to be
independent.The mighty Idaho Vandals just announced they are going indue
in football only. And Big Sky for all other sports.

BYU chose independence over compromising its core
values. Fortunately, BYU has a national brand that is valuable enough to warrant
signing an exclusive 8-year contract to have its games televised on the World
Wide Leader, plus its very own state-of-the-art HD television network
that's already delivering what the PAC Net is still well short of
delivering.

You obviously don't understand
the definition of an exclusive contract.

An exclusive contract is a
contract between one party and a service provider designating that provider as
the only provider of a specific service for that party - in BYU's case,
ESPN is the only provider of television coverage for BYU home football games
subject to the specific terms of the contract.

I wish Utah fans who
are too embarrassed to be associated with the Utes would stop pretending to be
BYU fans.

You obviously don't understand the definition of an exclusive
contract.

An exclusive contract is a contract between one party and a
service provider designating that provider as the only provider of a specific
service for that party - in BYU's case, ESPN is the only provider of
television coverage for BYU home football games subject to the specific terms of
the contract.

I wish Utah fans who are too embarrassed to be
associated with the Utes would stop pretending to be BYU fans

________

So what you are saying is ESPN payed to be the exclusive
network to televise the 54-10 beat down at LES?And is also paying BYU to
be the exclusive network to televise Idaho, New Mexico St., San Jose St and
more? Some exclusive contract. Yawn.

ESPN was also the exclusive network to televise BYU's
amazing comeback against Utah State, easily one of the most exciting games
televised last season, and ESPN will be there televise Texas, Georgia Tech, and
Notre Dame visits to LES in the future.

The point is, win or lose,
every BYU game is nationally televised, most of them on ESPN, and even our
jealous friends on the hill tune in to watch - thank you for your support.